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They had been summoned, all 200 of them, to rubber-stamp John L. Lewis' next move in the coal crisis. For three days a small brigade of U.M.W. local officials, whom imperious John L. calls his policy committee, had plumped themselves down in Manhattan hotel rooms (at the union's expense) to wait. They slept, ate, drank, played poker, smoked cigars and just sat-until the boss should deem it appropriate to speak. The three-week coal truce was due to expire midnight...
...indoor season will end in March with a three-week volleyball tournament. In April and May, softball leagues will be formed...
...After a three-week layoff, the jayvee football team gets back into action tomorrow afternoon in Providence against a strong Brown junior varsity...
Then, with a clash of cymbals from the Army band and whir of limousine motors, Pandit Nehru was whirled off for the start of his three-week "voyage of discovery of the mind and heart of America...
...last month it was announced that Louis Armstrong would play a three-week stand at Bop City in New York. This notice badly frightened those who have been looking to Satchmo' to stifle the moans and yelps of the musical fringe that is bop; but the fright passed as Armstrong stuck to his two-beat last and gave no ground to the banana-split-and-beret coterie that haunts the "bars" in bop halls. It would seem that there are still people who prefer the easy phrases of Dixieland to the jolts and bumps of the new form...